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The visionary project was originally devised in April 2008 by long time Arch community member lucke as a simple shell script which provided irrefutable proof that "Arch is the best". It was announced to the world with a forum post, thus illuminating other people's minds, who immediately started porting it to multiple different languages, both programming and verbal, so that every human being on the planet could fully appreciate and benefit from this revolutionary discovery.

Befunge - Believed to be the first two-dimensional, ASCII-based, general-purpose (in the sense of "you could plausibly write Hunt the Wumpus in it") programming language.

<v"Arch is the best!"0
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Boo - A stablished object oriented statically typed programming language for .NET and Mono with a python inspired syntax and a special focus on metaprogramming through language and compiler extensibility features such as macros and custom compilation pipelines.

print "Arch is the best!"

Bourne shell - The original program, should be compatible with any shell.

#!/bin/sh
echo "Arch is the best!"

Bourne shell (Alternate) - Handy for piping the output to your favourite IRC/email/IM client. Should work with any shell.

node.js - a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications, using an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Tcl/Tk - A scripting language that is commonly used for rapid prototyping, scripted applications, GUIs and testing.

#!/usr/bin/env tclsh
puts "Arch is the best!"

Vala - Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C